Author(s): Muharrem Jakupi / Language(s): Albanian
/ Issue: 44/2014
In Azem Shkreli’s extraordinary poem “Lyrics with rain", there is repeated ten times the word "shi" (eng.: rain) and also, there are found 38 words or metaphors that have in their composition the sound "sh" as a symbolic reflection of about quadruple of this word. Among these words with the sound "sh" in their composition are also included two toponyms from Kosova and two toponnyms from Albania. This type of structuring is made in order that the sound "sh" of the word “shi” be reflected also in three onomatopoeic words, semantically related, which are brought to designate the typical noise when it rains. Thus, apart from the word "shushurimë" (eng.: murmur), which seems to come from the sky, the lyrical ego asks rhetorically, if sylphs are "whistling" (alb.: pëshpëritin) ear to ear their secrets, or if eagles (alb.:shqiponjat) are "soughing" (alb.: fëshfërijnë) something in Albanian language (alb. shqip) to each other .
So this murmurous "language" of nature in the rain, is imitated even linguistically through this density of the sound "sh", but in a way that after identifying it with the language of Albanian mythology beings, also be identified with the Albanian language (alb. Gjuhën shqipe) of the bird symbol of Albanians, a language that is spoken in all our native lands since ancientness. The syllogism of this poetic "reasoning" scheme, leads us to the conclusion that the Albanian language is the language of the eternal, and inalienable nature itself. In this way, poetry builds patriotic theme allegory through an extraordinary lyric, which, simultaneously, has as its thematic object, equally important, also the surface of "the beauty" and "the sublime" of Albanian natural landscape. All this sublime beauty, is organized also as a brilliance of "the seventh symphony of the rain", composed precisely, through Albanian language sounds and words.
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